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May 5, 2016
WordPress .gitignore
Updated May 2016. I wrote the original version of this in 2014 and have since change how I work, thus the update. Unfortunately there is no *right* answer. Wondering how git fits into your...
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Building A Slack Bot With Node.js And WordPress REST API
Some of my first experiments in the world of building a slack bot was to develop a basic Slash command using the WordPress REST API as a backend. If you or your team are the only users that intend...
Read →March 11, 2016
Slack Slash Command With WordPress REST API Backend
I've spent the last several weeks building Slack bots and other custom integrations. One of the simplest types of Slack integration to build is the Slash Command - which can be a way for a...
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WordPress Single Page Template For Categories
If you are familiar with building WordPress themes you've likely caught onto the naming convention used for page templates. These conventions are things like 'page-{slug}.php', 'single-{slug}.php',...
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Cowboy Coding To Professional Developer
Notes and slides from my WordCamp Kansas City 2015 presentation 'Cowboy Coding To Professional Developer'. (these are my presentation notes straight out of Evernote... please ignore formatting and...
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Style Disqus Comments in Twenty Fifteen Theme
I've recently moved several of my content based WordPress sites over to the Twenty Fifteen theme. It's just so clean and neat ... and focuses on content rather than features. Paired with Jetpack you...
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